Uzbekistan
Detail of the Tilla-Kari (Gold-covered) madrasah, 17th century, on the Registan square, Samarkand, Uzbekistan, showing small cylindrical corner towers crowned by cupolas and the huge monochrome blue dome, on July 16, 2010 at dusk. Samarkand, a city on the Silk Road, founded as Afrosiab in the 7th century BC, is a meeting point for the world's cultures. Its most important development was in the Timurid period, 14th to 15th centuries
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13425284
Media ID
45091152
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3744px x 5616px
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Credit
Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by Manuel Cohen
